Ecocruz and Wildlife Adventure - 20th July 2012

On the early morning Ecocruz we were greeted by an old friend Kasey the Minke whale who has been recorded in our waters since the year 2000! He/she came into us and circled Sula Beag as the passengers on board were treated to a full body view of the whale! We also came across an immature Basking Shark and a White-Tailed Eagle. We hauled in our creel pots and got rewarded with two Edible Crabs and plenty of Shore Crabs. Ewan

Ecocruz passengers - 20th of July 2012.

Wildlife Adventure passengers – 20th of July 2012. On our family 4 hour trip we had more superb Minke whale action with another inquisitive animal. It is a memory that will stay forever when a mammal up to 10 meters in length associates wit...h you! Another couple of Basking Sharks were spotted along with our local White-Tailed Eagles lifting in the warm sunny conditions. Porpoise along with Common and Grey Seals were seen and our usual sea birds including Gannets, Shearwaters and Auks. What a day, a great experience of the variety of species British wildlife has to offer! Ewan

A great day was also had on Sula Crion… we were back out tagging basking sharks, successfully tagged 4 more off Hyskeir! We were accompanied home by a group of bow riding common dolphins, had many fulmar fly-bys and lots of storm petrels all in beautiful sunshine :-)


See our Facebook page for video footage of bow riding common dolphin and a very inquisitive harbour porpoise around Sula Crion!!!

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